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The rest is true, but it's pretty easy to block individual telemarketers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229 ht

The rest is true, but it's pretty easy to block individual telemarketers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229 http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-block-phone-calls-on-your-android-smartphone/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-block-phone-calls... They always seem to call from the same number for me, day after day, then they go away when I block that number.

bediger4000 11y ago
Great, this is just the solution Verizon offered me, after the service rep acted like nobody on earth had ever called in to complain about robocalls from Cardholder Services. The problem is that robocallers often spoof the telephone number from which they call. It looks to me like they change the false, spoofed number about once a day. Given that I get 2, 3 or 5 calls from "Rachel" or "Ann" or "Microsoft Tech Support" a day, that's a lot of spoofed numbers to block In short, not a solution, except from a narrow, legal standpoint.
xeromal 11y ago
I tend to get a lot of calls from 0 or Unidentified. Not sure how to block that shit.
- slantyyz 11y ago
  If you're on Android, you can whitelist inbound calls using a freemium app called Mr. Number[1]. I'm not sure there's anything even remotely like it on iOS. If you're using a VOIP service, ymmv. Before I switched to Ooma, my previous VOIP provider allowed you have a whitelist. So basically anyone not in my contacts got bounced to voicemail, and my phone would not ring at all. Ooma's call blocking is obtuse and manual, but it's half the price of my last provider, and the call quality is way better. An unfortunate compromise, I guess. As for land lines, I used to use a now discontinued device+software called a Phone Valet [2] connected to an unused Mac. It basically acted as an answering machine/lightweight IVR. My phone would ring once so that the caller ID could get picked up by the device, and then based on a set of rules, my phone would either continue ringing, hang up (on known telemarketer numbers) or redirect to voicemail (everyone else). It was a pretty neat device, but I guess the decline of the landline led that product to be EOL'ed. [1] http://mrnumber.com/ http://mrnumber.com/ [2] http://www.phonevalet.com/ http://www.phonevalet.com/

bediger4000 11y ago

Great, this is just the solution Verizon offered me, after the service rep acted like nobody on earth had ever called in to complain about robocalls from Cardholder Services. The problem is that robocallers often spoof the telephone number from which they call. It looks to me like they change the false, spoofed number about once a day. Given that I get 2, 3 or 5 calls from "Rachel" or "Ann" or "Microsoft Tech Support" a day, that's a lot of spoofed numbers to block In short, not a solution, except from a narrow, legal standpoint.

xeromal 11y ago

I tend to get a lot of calls from 0 or Unidentified. Not sure how to block that shit.

slantyyz 11y ago
If you're on Android, you can whitelist inbound calls using a freemium app called Mr. Number[1]. I'm not sure there's anything even remotely like it on iOS. If you're using a VOIP service, ymmv. Before I switched to Ooma, my previous VOIP provider allowed you have a whitelist. So basically anyone not in my contacts got bounced to voicemail, and my phone would not ring at all. Ooma's call blocking is obtuse and manual, but it's half the price of my last provider, and the call quality is way better. An unfortunate compromise, I guess. As for land lines, I used to use a now discontinued device+software called a Phone Valet [2] connected to an unused Mac. It basically acted as an answering machine/lightweight IVR. My phone would ring once so that the caller ID could get picked up by the device, and then based on a set of rules, my phone would either continue ringing, hang up (on known telemarketer numbers) or redirect to voicemail (everyone else). It was a pretty neat device, but I guess the decline of the landline led that product to be EOL'ed. [1] http://mrnumber.com/ http://mrnumber.com/ [2] http://www.phonevalet.com/ http://www.phonevalet.com/